Thursday, November 27, 2008

The Origins of Mathematics

The origins of mathematics accompanied the evolution of social systems. Many, many social needs require.

  • counting,
  • calculations,
  • measurement

  • The worth of a herdsman cannot be known unless some basics facts of counting are known.
  • An temple cannot be built unless certain facts about triangles, squares, and volumes are known.
  • An inheritance cannot be distributed unless certain facts about division (fractions) are known.
From practical needs such as these, mathematics was born.

One view is that the core of early mathematics is based upon two simple questions.

  • How many?
  • How much?

History



Before I try to write in this blog, I will explain that I,in this myself, not a profesional written. So forgive me that every word I try to write in here don"t look well.
Once upon a time......
We usually use this word to open story which happen in the past, and I will call this as HISTORY. I think the definition of history is phenomenon which happen in the past, it also call our mind about past. In this blog, I will tell about history especially about history of mathematics. So lets start to open our mind and think about past, especially about mathematics in the past of course. As a mathematics student, we must know about this history, we can get important information when we study about history. Lets be happy and interest to study history of mathematics.